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Re: [TCLUG:20613] slashdot and doubleclick
Tim Sandquist said:
> I used the /etc/hosts trick for a while. I had problems with some sites.
> Even slashdot.org. If it tried to load a page with a (blocked) doubleclick
> ad in it it would bring up 404 and going back would try to load the ad again
> and send you to the 404 again. I would keep going back until slashdot gave
> me a different ad or I gave up and went to a different site.
>
> Lynx works fine though, so it's mostly a browser thing. I haven't tried it
> with mozilla or konqueror but I suppose I could sometime.
I see... Interesting.
But that does explain why junkbuster doesn't have this problem - the browser
asks for the image (or whatever) and it gets a valid response from
junkbuster.
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